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Reserve Bank of India to Launch Financial Literacy Drive in Nine States
Six NGOs registered with the Depositor Education and Awareness Fund -- CRISIL Foundation, Dhan Foundation, Swadhaar Fin Access, Indian School of Micro Finance for Women (ISMW), Samarpit and the PACE Foundation -- have been selected to execute the pilot project in collaboration with banks.
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- Finance
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- South Asia
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Common Cents Lab Opens Applications for 2018 Financial Services Cohort
Each year, the lab collaborates with chosen financial services providers to custom design, test, and launch new features and products that aim to increase financial well-being for 1.8 million low- to moderate-income (LMI) households in America.
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- Finance, Impact Assessment
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Is Safaricom Entering the Ethiopian Market?
"We wish to categorically state that we are not engaged in any conversations with Ethio Telecom on this matter. Any information to the contrary is completely inaccurate," CEO Bob Collymore told The East African.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Chinese money dominates bitcoin, now its companies are gunning for blockchain tech
I meet Jack Liao, who runs a bitcoin mining firm called Lightning Asic. He leads me through a dark hutong, coming to a set of carved wooden double-doors. Pushing them open, we enter into the courtyard of a palatially renovated villa. This is my first look at the elusive “bitcoin club.”
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- Finance
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- blockchain, cryptocurrency, fintech
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Mobile subscriptions hit 40 million mark in Kenya, says Communication Authority
The number of mobile subscriptions in the country have risen to 40.2 million, the Communication Authority of Kenya reported on Friday
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Why Gyms Love January: Leveraging Behavioral Economics for Financial Health
People are famously irrational when it comes to financial matters. We can't seem to resist wasting money on things that we know aren't beneficial. Why do we make self-defeating financial decisions, and how can we be persuaded to change them? Evelyn Stark, financial inclusion lead at MetLife Foundation, discusses the ways financial service providers are leveraging behavioral science to help their clients spend less and save more, in the latest NextBillion podcast.
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- Finance
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IMF Releases the 2017 Financial Access Survey, Tracking Access to Financial Services
FAS data show progress in two indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals: the number of bank branches and automated teller machines (ATMs), with most of the growth concentrated in Asia. However, some other regions still lag in these financial access dimensions.
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- Finance
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- financial inclusion, fintech, SDGs
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Ecobank launches mVisa across 33 African Countries
Ecobank has partnered with Visa to launch Ecobank Scan+Pay with mVisa solutions to their consumers. The strategic tie-up signals interoperability on a cross border level - and potentially huge gains - as it affords consumers with the ability to use their mobile phone to directly access the funds in their bank accounts to pay person-to-merchant (P2M) or person-to-person (P2P).
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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